Migrated to Linux and still under the process of recreating an enviro where I'm as productive as I was on Windows. Almost there with Git. Still got to find a simple yet rather complete graphic editing tool to replace a SUPER old version of Paint Shop Pro. So far my go-to solution is photopea.com
Author: Ozh
So, after a 10 year hiatus (ten years !!), I'm rebooting this blog. New WP theme, no new topics except less (much less) WordPress. Cya soon :)
WordCamp Paris slides: Unit Tests for WordPress plugins
Last week-end I gave a talk at WordCamp Paris, about the exciting topic of Unit Tests for WordPress plugins (are you excited already?). I think I'll write a short blog post about it in the next few days ; I'll also write a series of post about unit testing, because that subject is so exciting :) In the meantime, here…
Revisiting WordPress smilies in a pure CSS way
Last night I was reading something interesting then stumbled, in the comments, on a WordPress smiley. Bleeeh. There's a reason one of the first things I do when I setup a new site is uncheck "Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display": 90's phpBB'esque blocky gifs are *ugly*. WordPress 4.2 Roadmap Wish: update those ugly smilies that…
WordPress plugin banner as a .PSD
I recently felt like making a few banners for my plugins. First questions that came to mind: "what's the name of the file again? what dimensions?". And then, while making stuff: "will this be hidden by the plugin's title?" So, I made this simple banner template as a Photoshop PSD file. Nothing genius but feel free to use. No excuse…
My WordPress plugins are on Github. Fancy a Pull Request?
I released a number of WordPress plugins over the last 10 years ("24 plugins and 1,062,110 downloads", says my fun bookmarklet) and they all mostly fall in one of these three categories: Outdated stuff that are no longer maintained because I don't need them anymore Simple stuff that don't require any maintenance because they just work and will probably work…
Archive your tweets with WordPress
Twitter is fun and catchy, but the thing is: once tweeted, gone forever. Found an awesome link last month, shared it with a relevant #hashtag? Good luck finding it now. Your data now lives and dies on Twitter and you have no hand on it. Four years ago to address this problem I made yet-another-Twitter-to-WordPress plugin, creatively named Ozh' Tweet…
Why WordPress should drop PHP 5.2
There's a recurring debate about WordPress and whether they should keep code compatible with PHP 5.2 or drop it and bump the requirements to a newer PHP version. Hey, I have an opinion on this. What's wrong with PHP 5.2? Nothing much, except PHP 5.2 was released in November 2006, and was maintained and developed till January 2011. This means…
What your Github profile says about you
I've always had a fascination for Github timeline graphs since they released it. It's simple and pretty and potentially meaningful (and fits nicely on a geek tshirt). Yes, it may say things about you. The following is an attempt at decrypting what a few actual Github timelines say, or might say, or don't say at all, after a thorough and…
Generate Github-like contribution graph – for fun and for t-shirts
I really like how Github displays your yearly code contributions, in that 52×7 green dot matrix. It's cute, informative, and has become iconic enough that any nerd knows what it refers to. I like it so I funcoded a script that will deliver a message after 365 days of running — fun, but kinda slow, right? So, I made something…